theres NO tendancy its reality , Grouse stay with your thumb throttles, there have been 4 accidents here in the past 12 months on race quads with twist grips being the problem, 1 kid now has 4 pins in his hip, 2 pins in his ankle and probably wont walk properly again, another one of the guys got 58 stitches from his head to his @sshole , 1 kid well they burried him , he died on impact after cutting 3 8-13 inch poplar trees off with his banshee, and my kid , who spent a day in emergency got his shoulder back in and now has to repair the quad and the sled he plowed into at a buck20 , all 4 accidents were identical , with different outcomes, they were flying up a hill, lost control leaned back and in doing so pulled back on the twist grip opening the bike up!
thumb throttles are about 99.9% safe, why sledders and the new race quads all have them, when you pull back to climb or throw the machine around you pull on the handle bars, a thumb throttle wont be effected atall in this as your pulling from the front back, a twist grip will follow your pulling and open wide, I am sure accidents happen with thumb throttles to but easily corrected before its to late, been sledding and quading for alot of years and yet to ratch out a sled or bike with a thumb throttle but sure smoked my zuki 500 with a twist grip
I beleive the top 2 deadliest quads on the market well 1 isnt anymore but you can still find them, are
1: YAMAHA BANSHEE , these things are freeking suicide machines
2: SUZUKI QUAD RACERS, another overpowered 2 stroke (not as bad or as fast as the banshee but a 250 will do 135km/h no problem on a straight
and now low and behold the mighty powers at yamaha have come out with a bigbore kit for there banshee, making it pretty much unridable by anyone other than a pro who still get the sh!t scared out of them
and yea we happen to have a zuki bored ported and all the goodies, kid rode it for about 10 hours total now its for sale
